Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. Jason at DIA tagged it with this note: "The most universal piece of advice about using social networks for fundraising and friendraising is to start small."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 12, 2011

tags: git workflow toblog. The Agile NonProfit: A Quick Start Guide to Iterative Web Development | Ian Rhett | CivicActions. tags: nptech toblog webdevelopment. A web-focused Git workflow | Joe Maller. Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

While the meebo nptech chat room is chatting live during the PDF, a few tweets overheard on twitter anticipate the upcoming NetSquared Conference. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Comparing 5 Ways To Tag Videos hit dig popular. If you pop out of your browser to visit, you'll see the NpTech Meebo Chat Room.). NetSquared Community.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

That's why Wild Apricot has put together a free Membership Software Selection Guide , to help nonprofit and association leaders choose the best membership website software to match their goals, budgets, and technical know-how. The free downloadable ebook lays out a series of seven easy-to-follow steps for a smooth software review process.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 22, 2010

The guide is presented as a set of six checklists that neatly cover the "essential basics" of online fundraising: Website home page Donation form Writing style Email lists Email campaigns Thank-you programs The checklists are all in an easy-to-use worksheet/quiz format. read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation. The NPTech Blog Chatter Confessions of a non-profit IT director blog rasied ruckus with his proposal for creating a closed forum and new NTEN Affinity Group : nptechhelp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

NpTech Talk. Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) Holly Ross points to Robin Good's Beginner Guide to Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

MasterNewMedia has published an awesome Video Beginner's Guide written by Michael Pick. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. New(to me) Blogs Good Works Grapvine covers social media and strategies for Non-Profits.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 28, 2010

Good news: Idealware.org has just released a software guide that's specifically for nonprofits.( Tags: Non-profit technology General non-profit interest nptech software. It can be tough even to know what's out there, let alone to decide what you need. read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

NpTech Talk. NpTech Software. Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development. Most of the links identified have flowed through the NpTech Tag stream but nice to revisit them! Ruby has compiled a Progressive/Nonprofit Guide to Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2009

I didn't have to look any further than the Idealware site and a recent report, " A Consumer's Guide To Low-Cost Data Visualization Tools " to get the answers. Tags: maps nptech nptech tools visual thinking. What can the tools do? And, in a nutshell, what are some visual information tips?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Marshall Kirkpatrick points us a tag 'PrezConference" for YouTube users to record their questions for the candidates on YouTube. The 5 Site Guide Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? This beautifully designed and well written concise guide is a must-read.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 4, 2009

If your organization is in the market for new donor management or fundraising software, Idealware has just released a new (free) research report you may want to check out: The Consumer’s Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems is an impressive 48-page document that compares the specific features of 33 different donor management systems.(

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. I suspect that the good folks at SeaChange are busy updated the 2008 the Procrastinators Guide To Year-End Fundraising.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 2, 2010

Carol’s been studying Idealware’s Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide – the latest in a line of Idealware’s terrific research-based publications – and she’s kindly agreed to share her top “take-aways” from this new publication.( Wild Apricot Blog welcomes a special guest today: Carol Buckheit of NonprofitMediaWorks. read more ).

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 15, 2010

Kivi Leroux Miller, author of The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause, believes that storytelling is one of the most effective yet underused marketing tactics for nonprofits. Tags: nptech Marketing Best practices Blogging Non-profit Communications. read more ).

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NTEN

MARCH 27, 2012

There's a lot going on at the NTC, so here's a step by step guide to using myNTC , the online conference community, to plan your schedule: Step 1: Access Your Account. You can update your tags by clicking the box next to any of your interests. We're down to the wire, with one week left before the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. I may be way off.

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Wild Apricot

MAY 24, 2010

Could your non profit create a similar volunteer or member profile, to help guide your own recruitment and retention programs? Tags: nptech Volunteers Non-profit Communications demographics. This action-packed infographic from the Pepsi Refresh Project presents a picture of the “typical” volunteer. read more ).

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Wild Apricot

MAY 11, 2010

In fact, their Web Posting Response Assement flow chart can serve as a strong models to guide your staff in best practices of online conversation.( Tags: nptech Best practices online community Blogging Social networking Non-profit Communications social media diagram. Perhaps so, if it’s the US Air Force we’re talking about!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

" Tags: roundup 2010 4change applications bookmarks causemarketing challenge community competition competitions facebook free fundraising guide list lists nonprofits nptech postalicious resources socialchange storytelling tools trends volunteering. " Check it out! " Check it out!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Blog: Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech. Blog: Nonprofit Marketing Guide. Tags: Blogging Twitter. Blog: Tactical Philanthrop. Nancy Schwartz: @NancySchwartz from New York, NY. Blog: Getting Attention. Amy Sample Ward: @amyrsward from London, England. Sandy Rees: @SandyRees from East Tennessee. Blog: Get Fully Funded.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

" Idealware Field Guide to Software for Nonprofits by Laura Quinn in Computers & Internet – "What types of software should your nonprofit be using? But the real question is this: Are brands providing meaningful and engaging experiences to their customers through their online communities?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 7, 2009

Helping technology managers and leaders understand and rectify the critical issues at the intersection of technology and mission is the inspiration behind the new NTEN book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission: A Strategic Guide for Nonprofit Leaders. Tags: community events conference nptech ntc nten ontc.

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2009

Thanks to our fab partners, Idealware, we're releasing the Consumer's Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems. > The Consumers Guide provides you the unbiased comparative information you need to narrow down your choices in a fundraising system. Tags: CRM Fundraising idealware NPTech. Get the report!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

On Friday, I tripped down the rabbit hole of Google + field test with many other social media early adopters and nonprofit technology (#nptech folks) who were kicking the tires. Google + is Google’s new social sharing platform. The tag is still active on Twitter and other places. Visual Guide to Circles in Google+ by @ross.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Devendra Shrikande and I are creating a year-long curriculum — a step-by-step DIY guide — to developing an in-house social network for nonprofits (a private online community for constituents). Tags: Marketing and Communication Social Media #nptech Blackbaud Non-Profit Social Media Strategy Social Media Tools.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 13, 2010

Looking into ways for a small nonprofit to remind donors of the tax advantages of charitable donations, I came across a real gem in Effective Fundraising for Nonprofits: Real-World Strategies That Work, a down-to-earth guide you can preview (free) with Google Books.( read more ).

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 28, 2009

Here’s what the NTEN folks have to say about it: In addition to the scores of breakout sessions, the networking, camaraderie, and general nptech-related good times, noted author Clay Shirky will be the keynote speaker at the 2009 NTC, coming up in San Francisco, April 26-28. Tags: TechSoup. I love the NTC. " read more.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

The Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide | Idealware – "Social media can be useful to your organization… but how useful? Interested to hear how organizations are dealing with this issue! What tangible results are people seeing from it?

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Wild Apricot

MARCH 15, 2010

Analyze This: A Nonprofit's Guide to Event Fundraising Analytics is a truly useful free ebook for nonprofit event fundraisers, written by Jono Smith (formerly of Network for Good) for Convio and Event360 , that shows, step by step, how you can use the data collected from your fundraising events to create more successful.( read more ).

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 25, 2010

The first of three training videos produced to guide the volunteer moderators who helped run the British Columbia Library Association's 2009 Teen Reading Club, Moderating Forums is jam-packed with down-to-earth advice and guidelines for creating, nurturing and moderating a successful online community. read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. That's, of course, if the tag used is unique enough. I think it takes more a unique tag.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Following the keynote sessions – at 10:30 AM we start with a blank wall and, in less than an hour, with a facilitator guiding the process attendees create a full day, multi-track conference agenda that is relevant and inspiring to everyone in the room. dc event nonprofit nptech openspace training unconference. Public Affairs.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 4, 2009

This is a chance to showcase your recent blog posts about: Case studies; Best practices; Opinions and Editorials; Tutorials and “How to” guides; Low-cost or free web-based or desktop tools; Best web resources.( read more ).

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